The temple of the muses, or, The principal histories of fabulous antiquity
Subtitle: represented in sixty sculptures
By: designed and ingraved by Bernard Picart le Romain, and other celebrated masters ; with explications and remarks, which discover the true meaning of the fables, and their foundation in history.
Contributors: Marolles, Michel de, 1600-1681.; Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733.; Favereau, Jacques, 1590-1675.; Diepenbeeck, Abraham van, 1596-1675.; Bloemaert, Cornelis, 1603-1692.
Series: Blake -- no. 1188A
Publisher: Printed for Zachariah Chatelain
Published: 1733
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: Mythology, Classical.
Other titles: Temple of the muses.; Principle histories of fabulous antiquity
Work titles: Temple des muses.
Notes: Added engraved title-page.

Includes index.

The text newly written by Antoine de La Barre de Beaumarchais to describe engravings, originally by C. Bloemaert and others after A. Van Diepenbeck and other artists, published as "Tableaux du temple des muses" with text by Michel de Marolles, based on the work by Jaques Favereau ... Paris, 1655.

The inscriptions on the engravings are in French, English, German and Dutch.

Gift to Victoria University Library. Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.